{"id":517,"date":"2004-02-17T22:49:49","date_gmt":"2004-02-18T03:49:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/?p=517"},"modified":"2004-02-17T22:49:49","modified_gmt":"2004-02-18T03:49:49","slug":"knoppix-and-partimage-to-the-rescue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/2004\/02\/17\/knoppix-and-partimage-to-the-rescue\/","title":{"rendered":"Knoppix and PartImage to the rescue"},"content":{"rendered":"

I finally got around to figuring out how to image some various machines onto a newly installed cheap 5400rpm 80Gig drive I have on one of my home boxes.<\/p>\n

I had contemplated tools like Norton Ghost and PowerQuest DriveImage but I wasn’t looking forward to farting around with multiple boot floppies to get network and PCMCIA drivers happening for my laptops and various other machines.<\/p>\n

I took a look around for some Open Source stuff and came across PartImage<\/a>, which comes on the Knoppix 3.3<\/a> CD.<\/p>\n

I booted up my trusty Knoppix CD, opened a shell, and did the following:<\/p>\n

\n

knoppix@ttyp1[knoppix]# sudo su
\nroot@ttyp1[knoppix]# mkdir smb
\nroot@ttyp1[knoppix]# smbmount \/\/myserver\/bigshare smb -o username=myname
\npassword: *******
\nroot@ttyp1[knoppix]# partimage<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

… at which point, I was launched into the partimage program which has a full-screen text-based ui that is easy to navigate. <\/p>\n

Within minutes I was copying my NTFS partition over the network with gzip compression at about 40 MB per minute.<\/p>\n

I’ll have to do some testing on another machine I have, blowing away and restoring partitions. I can only hope it will be as smooth as it has been so far!<\/p>\n

— update:<\/p>\n

I just saved, trashed and restored a 250MB QNX FAT partition on a celeron333 machine using the System Rescue CD<\/a>, following the exact same steps as with Knoppix.<\/p>\n

Saved the 250Meg partition without compression in 2 min 38 seconds over the network, resored it in less than 5 minutes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I finally got around to figuring out how to image some various machines onto a newly installed cheap 5400rpm 80Gig drive I have on one of my home boxes. I had contemplated tools like Norton Ghost and PowerQuest DriveImage but I wasn’t looking forward to farting around with multiple boot floppies to get network and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}